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Chapter 1: Prehistoric Art TERMS: sculpture in the round, relief sculpture, memory image, abstract, composite pose, modeling, post and lintel, construction, corbeling, ridgepole, wattle and daub, megalithic architecture, dolmen, cairn, passage grave, vault, henge, mortise- and-tenon joints, ceramics, kiln, potsherds, alloy

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Chapter 1: Prehistoric Art

• TERMS: sculpture in the round, relief

sculpture, memory image, abstract,

composite pose, modeling, post and lintel,

construction, corbeling, ridgepole, wattle

and daub, megalithic architecture, dolmen,

cairn, passage grave, vault, henge, mortise-

and-tenon joints, ceramics, kiln, potsherds,

alloy

Prehistoric Europe

Map 1-1

Timeline of Culture: Prehistory

Periods:

• Paleolithic Period (Old Stone Age): 40,000-10,000 BCE

• Neolithic Period (New Stone Age): 6500-1000 BCE

• Bronze Age: 3000-500 BCE

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Culture: Prehistory

Period/Style: Paleolithic

Title: Hand-axe

Medium: Stone

Date: 40,000-10,000 BCE

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Culture: Prehistory

Period/Style: Paleolithic

Title: Decorated Ocher

Medium: Ocher

Date: 40,000-10,000 BCE

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Culture: Prehistory

Period/Style: Paleolithic

Title: Reconstruction of Mammoth-bone houses

Medium: Mammoth-bones, animal fur, and dirt

Date: 40,000-10,000 BCE

Location: Ukraine

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Culture: Prehistory

Period/Style: Paleolithic

Title: Lion-Human

Medium: Mammoth ivory

Date: 40,000-10,000 BCE

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Culture: Prehistory

Period/Style: Paleolithic

Title: Woman from Willendorf

Medium: Painted limestone

Date: 40,000-10,000 BCE

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Culture: Prehistory

Period/Style: Paleolithic

Title: Woman from Dolni Vestonice

Medium: Fired Clay

Date: 40,000-10,000 BCE

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Culture: Prehistory

Period/Style: Paleolithic

Title: Woman from Brassempouy

Medium: Ivory

Date: 40,000-10,000 BCE

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Culture: Prehistory

Period/Style: Paleolithic

Title: Spotted Horses and Human Hands

Medium: Paint on limestone

Date: 40,000-10,000 BCE

Location: Peche Merle Cave, France

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Culture: Prehistory

Period/Style: Paleolithic

Title: Hall of Bulls

Medium: Paint on limestone

Date: 40,000-10,000 BCE

Location: Lascaux Cave, France

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Culture: Prehistory

Period/Style: Paleolithic

Title: Bird-Headed Man with Bison

Medium: Paint on limestone

Date: 40,000-10,000 BCE

Location: Lascaux Cave, France

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Culture: Prehistory

Period/Style: Paleolithic

Title: Bison

Medium: Paint on limestone

Date: 40,000-10,000 BCE

Location: Altamira Cave, Spain

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Culture: Prehistory

Period/Style: Paleolithic

Title: Bison

Medium: Unbaked clay

Date: 40,000-10,000 BCE

Location: Tuc d'Audoubert Cave, France

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Culture: Prehistory

Period/Style: Paleolithic

Title: Lamp with Ibex Design

Medium: Engraved stone

Date: 40,000-10,000 BCE

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Culture: Prehistory

Period/Style: Neolithic

Title: Reconstruction of a House

Medium: Wood, brick, and plaster

Date: 6500-1000 BCE

Location: Catalhoyuk , Turkey

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Culture: Prehistory

Period/Style: Neolithic

Title: Reconstruction of House/Shrine

Medium: Wood, brick, and clay

Date: 6500-1000 BCE

Location: Lepenski Vir, Serbia

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Culture: Prehistory

Period/Style: Neolithic

Title: Tomb Interior

Medium: Stone, pebbles, dirt, and grass

Date: 6500-1000 BCE

Location: Newgrange, Ireland

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Culture: Prehistory

Period/Style: Neolithic

Title: Stonehenge

Medium: Stone

Date: 6500-1000 BCE

Location: Salisbury Plain, England

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Culture: Prehistory

Period/Style: Neolithic

Title: Reconstruction of Durrington Walls

Medium: Wood

Date: 6500-1000 BCE

Location: Salisbury Plain, England

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Culture: Prehistory

Period/Style: Neolithic

Title: Jomon Pot

Medium: Ceramic

Date: 6500-1000 BCE

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Culture: Prehistory

Period/Style: Neolithic

Title: Figure of a woman (left) and a man (right)

Medium: Ceramic

Date: 6500-1000 BCE

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Culture: Prehistory

Period/Style: Neolithic

Title: Ain Ghazal Human Figure

Medium: Fired lime plaster, cowrie shell,

bitumen, and paint

Date: 6500-1000 BCE

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Culture: Prehistory

Period/Style: Neolithic

Title: Scepters

Medium: Gold

Date: 6500-1000 BCE

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Culture: Prehistory

Period/Style: Bronze

Title: Boat and Sea Battle

Medium: Rock carving

Date: 3000-500 BCE

Location: Fossum, Sweden